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Free online seminar: Arda’s Entangled Bodies and Environments
You can sign up for a free online seminar featuring analyses of bodies and environments across Tolkien’s works. October 18 via Zoom. Details in the link.
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Grendel’s Mother Talks Back
“Grendel’s Mother Talks Back: Contemporary Women’s Mythopoeic Revisions” is a talk I gave for the Midsummer Online Seminar of the Mythopoeic Society in August. A link to the recorded talk is included.
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Two conferences this week!
Two conferences dealing with Tolkien and with women and gender in mythopoeic works to take place this week — The NY Tolkien Conference, and the Online Midsummer Seminar of the Mythopoeic Society. Follow the link for more info.
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Tolkien at IMC Leeds 2025
Tolkien studies sessions at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, 2025.
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Studies in Tolkien: New Book Series
Doing research on Tolkien? A new book series, Studies in Tolkien, to be published by McFarland is now accepting proposals for scholarly monographs or shorter Critical Companions. Follow the link for proposal guidelines.
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Shortlisted for a Tolkien Society Best Article Award!
I’m thrilled to find that my article “Tolkien, The Battle of Maldon, and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth: Poetic Allusions and the Experience of Time” has been shortlisted for a Tolkien Society Award! Voting for TS members open until Friday 25 April.
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Westmoot 2025
The Westmoot 2025 conference will be held in Kansas City from May 9-11, the first time the Tolkien Society will sponsor an event in North America.
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Christopher Tolkien Centenary Conference
Christopher Tolkien Centenary Conference program and links for registration. Free, online, Nov 23-24, 2024.
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cfp: Tolkien and War
CFP: Tolkien and War. 21st Annual Tolkien at the University of Vermont hybrid conference. April 5, 2025; proposals due Feb. 2.
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Two new articles on Tolkien’s ‘The Homecoming’
Links to two articles available for free download on J.R.R. Tolkien’s play, “The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth” and a video recording of a conference presentation on Tolkien as a playwright. These essays discuss manuscript revisions, ideas about drama, and allusions to medieval poetry.
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